DAVID E. GOLDBERG is president of Big Beacon, a nonprofit organization founded as a movement for the transformation of engineering education. He is known as an author, educator, entrepreneur, and artificial intelligence researcher. Author of the widely cited bestseller Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning and co-founder of ShareThis, in 2007 he co-founded the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education (iFoundry). In 2010 he resigned his tenure and professorship at the University of Illinois to work full time for the transformation of engineering education. As a movement leader, leadership coach, and change management consultant, Dave now works with individuals, organizations, and networks around the world to collaboratively disrupt the status quo.

When an organization or a business publishes their values are they merely grandstanding? Or, as I would rather believe, are they putting themselves on notice to live and operate a certain way? How much would your organizational credibility or leadership influence grow if you published your values (and lived by them)?

With the advent of hosting the FM talk radio show, titled The Job Talk Radio Show , and associated podcast by the same name, I have had the opportunity to explore the concept of values as they relate to leadership. As a talk show host I raised the subject of values with my listening audience, asking them if publicly declaring ones values is appropriate or worthwhile. Some listeners were dubious, while many others applauded both individuals and organizations that commit to publishing, then living and operating by their personal and professional values.

As I do, I took up the gauntlet and sought out the expertise of a successful “values” commentator to interview on the show. In my recent interview, titled Words Into Action – How An Enterprise Vision Becomes Reality (podcast linked here) with the successful “values” guru and business man, Domenico Zaccone. As a guest Domenico generously shares his “values” platform. He discussed how his values evolved over time relative to both his personal and professional life, and how these values manifest in his business today.

Although Domenico began his professional life as a Mechanical Engineer, he purposely “expanded his professional landscape” (his words) through mentorship and a deep curiosity about the “how and why” of the workplace and the organizational roles he occupied. As a result of our interview I concluded that Domenico’s values based approach to leadership is time tested and successful. He is an enthusiastic and visionary leader. His modes operandi includes the ability and focus to both shape strategy and drive execution to make things happen, thereby delivering what he promises. In fact, his personal mantra has been to “deliver what you promise.”

I encourage you to listen to the interview, however I have condensed the interview into the following salient points, which coincidentally are his company’s published values.

Be Authentic

Respect Others

Open To Change

Act Honestly

Deliver On Promises

Conclusion

When an organization or an individual publishes their values I choose to believe that they are putting themselves on notice to live and operate a certain way. Choosing to publish (and then live by) your values may be risky, but only if you are not committed to the values you espouse.

Dr Tina – aka – Dr. Martina Carroll-Garrison is the owner of MCG Consulting Group, LLC, and helps leaders and executives to speak the story of their lives to those they can trust, towards achieving self-awareness, work-life balance, increased leadership capacity and executive presence, while creating healthy work environments. www.mcgconsultinggroup.com

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Perhaps the most important resource you have is your ability to be persuasive. Influence leads to sales, it motivates your team, and it helps you be the leader in your industry you have always wanted to be. My guest for this interview on The Job Talk Radio Show is Sharí Alexander and she generously shares influence insights and tricks that are also the same techniques that CIA agents, hostage negotiators, con-artists, and the world’s best influencers use and how you can use them in an ethical way to build your business and build your community.

Sharí Alexander is a coach, speaker, and writer who has made her career by being known for Bringing the “Dark Arts” of Influence into the Light. She reveals secrets of enhanced communication techniques known and used by master influencers, including: CIA agents, undercover law enforcement,con-artists, human intelligence officers, interrogators, trial attorneys and more. She translates their techniques into practical, strategic, and profitable uses for business leaders.

Sharí has designed numerous communication training courses and speeches that cover these enlightening areas of enhanced communication, along with self-study programs. Sharí is certified in neurolinguistic programing (NLP), micro expressions, and body language. Her clients include Fortune 100 companies, CEOs, politicians, an NFL player, an Emmy Award® Winning executive, an ESPN announcer, a reality TV star, and New York Times Bestselling authors. Sharí is also a regular contributor to Entrepreneur.com and guest lecturer at !

It’s a fact – most small businesses fail. Estimates vary from 50-75% fail in the first year and few last 5 years. Roy Austin has worked with lots of small business and conducted extensive research on why this happens and the steps needed to avoid this fate. To help small business owners to be more successful Roy has also written a book that should be available in the summer of 2015. Roy’s strategy included steps and tools to help small business owners to make better business decisions.

Roy Austin, Rockwell Business Solutions, LLC

Roy was Chief Financial Officer for D. J. Powers Company, Inc., a third party logistics provider from 2002 to 2009. Before joining D. J. Powers, Mr. Austin was the Controller for Savannah Manufacturing, an aseptic drink manufacturer, and before that spent 29 years with Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, TN in various accounting, sales forecasting & market research assignments. He earned a BA in Economics from Bethany College and an MBA in Marketing from Michigan State. He is the founder and Chair of the Savannah CFO/Controller’s Council that has grown to over 350 senior financial executives since its inception in 2004. In 2004, he received the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) “Financial Executive of the Year” award for the Florida Council region of IMA. He is active with the Savannah Chapter of IMA and did extensive volunteer work with the Tennessee Department of Corrections. He is currently volunteering with the Curry Foundation in Bluffton, SC. His passion is “getting underneath the numbers” and developing information systems to help management understand what causes financial performance.

In 2007 he founded Rockwell Business Solutions, LLC (RBS) which provides outsource Chief Financial Officer services and, through its “Sustainable Success” program, coaching, mentoring and seminars for small business that have a sincere desire to move their business to the next level. RBS has also been involved with business development, mergers & acquisitions and investor relations and negotiations with partners and vendors, particularly banks. Clients include Crescent Investments, Inc; Cargo Group, LLC; Cargo Transportation Services, LLC; Blue Diamond Pool Services, Inc; Bottles Up, Inc; Atlas Surveying, Inc. and D.J. Powers, Inc to name a few.

Roy and his wife Sharron live at Sun City Hilton Head in Bluffton, SC. Between them they have 4 children and 7 grandchildren.

Meltdowns in the workplace can be disastrous. Knowing what to do and how to respond – before – during – and afterwards will aid to prevent them occurring and mitigate the damage if they do occur. Dr Lee E. Meadows, Ph.D (aka The Lull Doctor) is a Professor of Management at Walsh College and Consultant with over 30 years of experience working for and consulting with leading organizations on a variety of management issues. He is also the author of the business leadership fable: Take the Lull by the Horns!Closing the Leadership Gap

Dr. Meadows was the Chairman of the Management Department at Davenport University’s Dearborn Campus. He teaches management courses for both the undergraduate, MBA and Doctoral program at Walsh. He also conducts seminars for the Business Leadership Institute of Walsh College and does independent consulting on management and organizational issues. He teaches seminars, based on his book, ‘Take the Lull By the Horns: Closing the Leadership Gap,’

In addition to his teaching and consulting responsibilities at Walsh College, Dr. Meadows is also a contributing Business Columnist for the Novi News, the Northville Record and the Michigan Chronicle.

Dr. Meadows was born and raised in Detroit. He graduated from Northern High School where he went on to earn his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Michigan State University. While at Michigan State, he worked as both a university administrator in the University Housing Program and an adjunct professor in the College of Education. He earned his Doctorate in Higher Education Administration with a concentration in management and organizational behavior.

Dr. Meadows has worked in training and organizational change for a variety of companies. As an independent consultant specializing in Change Management, Core Management Skills, Team building, Diversity Training and Corporate Motivational Speaking, has consulted with numerous small, mid-size and large companies, police agencies, state and local government agencies, several k – 12 school districts as well as mid-size and large universities. As an HR professional, his practical experiences include having worked at Michigan State University, General Motors, the Kellogg Foundation, EDS/A.T. Kearney Consulting Services and Con-Way Transportation Services.

John Phillips is a former US Army Officer, who serves as an advocate for veteran employment tissues and has authored a guidebook titled, Boots to Loafers, Finding Your New True North, which speaks to how veterans transitioning out of the military and into the private sector.

Fifteen years ago when John Phillips retired from the U.S. Army, the availability of resources to help build his resume, polish up for interviews and all the other important pieces of wisdom needed to obtain a job – just were not there for him. Phillips’ reminisces that the US Army ACAP program was simply inadequate. Today, the internet is flooded with information which is equally as challenging as our service members really just want to get to the bottomline and learn what it is they need to know in order to take the next steps out of the military and into the private sector; most importantly to land a job.

With the help of a trusted HR expert, Phillips developed a resource/tool for service members that provides practical, real-time, direct information covering areas that other resources are not currently providing; how to interview, questions to ask about benefits, negotiating a salary, translating job skills from military to civilian terminology, and so much more. Boots to Loafers, Finding Your New True North is the ultimate new Field Manual that applies 20-years of service and 15-years of employment with a Fortune 50 company – laced with all the mistakes one can make, and all the opportunities one can have.

Phillips cautions us that over the next few years, our country is expecting about 1.5 to 2 million service members exiting the military…through a number of means, voluntary and involuntary.

JOHN W. PHILLIPS has had a distinguished career in both military and civilian service. John is a retired US Army Field Artillery officer and Comptroller with 20+ years of service in Corps Artillery, Division Artillery, Army Headquarters and Forces Command, the largest command and the generating force provider for combatant commanders – at home and abroad. He has served in Europe, throughout the Middle East and the United States. Among his awards and decorations are the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, and the Air Assault Badge.

John is the Author of Boots to Loafers, Finding Your New True North which outlines a proven process of transitioning out of the military and into the private sector. He has been featured on The Mike Huckabee Show, the Dennis Miller Show as well as a number of radio appearances across the country. John is a finance executive at The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia. In his spare time, John spends his time travelling with his wife, Sailing in the British Virgin Islands, wilderness trips in the western United States, and helping our nation’s military and veterans make the transition into society and finding a job. John holds a BS in Finance from University of Central Florida and an MBA from Syracuse University. John lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Georgia with his wife, the former Melissa K. Smith.

David Goldberg is an advocate for constructive change in the way engineers are trained! He has proposed that in the same way that revolutions in entrepreneurism, quality and information technology in the 1960s, 1970s and 1990s brought wrenching changes in the modern engineering and construction workplace, there’s a revolution underway in engineering education—and it’s about time. Engineering education as now practiced in the U.S. was a creation of the Cold War, when a 1955 report called for more science and math in the engineering curriculum to the exclusion of practical subjects. The training of increasingly narrow specialists was aligned with the times, and corporations wanted engineers who shut up, sat down and did what they were told as small cogs in large bureaucracies.

Fast forward to the 21st century, and engineers are increasingly entrepreneurial, increasingly responsible for creating value and finding new markets, and increasingly expected to do large amounts of client-facing work and interdisciplinary teaming. The need for a broader skill set shows up year after year in surveys of engineering employers who say things like “We appreciate their technical skills, but we wish they had better communications and soft skills.” But the use of the term “soft” betrays a big part of the problem and gestures at the direction the revolution is taking in engineering education. Goldberg says that this revolution is being played out through a partnership between the oddest couple since Oscar and Felix.

DAVID E. GOLDBERG is president of Big Beacon, a nonprofit organization founded as a movement for the transformation of engineering education. He is known as an author, educator, entrepreneur, and artificial intelligence researcher. Author of the widely cited bestseller Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning and co-founder of ShareThis, in 2007 he co-founded the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education (iFoundry). In 2010 he resigned his tenure and professorship at the University of Illinois to work full time for the transformation of engineering education. As a movement leader, leadership coach, and change management consultant, Dave now works with individuals, organizations, and networks around the world to collaboratively disrupt the status quo.

If your goal is to implement an idea, get your next promotion, build your business or make a dent in your market, the most direct point between where you are and where you want to be is the people you know.

Michelle Tillis Lederman, author of The 11 Laws of Likability (AMACOM 2011) and Heroes Get Hired (NBC Publishing 2013) , is the founder of Executive Essentials, a training company that provides communications and leadership programs, as well as executive coaching services. Michelle believes real relationships lead to real results and specializes in teaching people how to communicate with confidence, clarity, and connection. She has delivered seminars internationally for fortune 500 companies, universities, high schools, and non profit organizations. Michelle has appeared on NBC, CBS, Fox, and over 100 radio shows across the country including; Gayle King, NPR, and Martha Stewart Living. She has been quoted in the New York Times, The Star Ledger, Working Mother and Real Simple magazines, US News & World Report, on MSNBC, and Monster.com among others. Her book, articles, quizzes and videos have been featured on USA Today, AOL, Forbes, CNBC, and About.com.

Hello all – I am Dr Tina (aka Dr Martina Carroll-Garrison), an Executive Leadership Coach. Among other worklife roles I host (launching March 2015) a daily talk radio show in the Atlanta metro market, titled The Job Talk Radio Show, as well as this weekly (Thursday release date) podcast under the same name, and soon I will begin recording a Community TV Talk Show, titled The Job Talk TV Show in the Washington DC metro market. All of these shows are targeted at listeners and viewers wanting a more fulfilling, satisfying, and encouraging worklife. As a marketing strategy for my Executive Leadership Coaching business I seek connectivity both through the radio show, the TV show and the podcast platform to increase the Dr TinaExecutive Leadership Coach brand awareness, and to also attract the types of clients I enjoy working with.

As an Executive Coach I achieve great personal and professional satisfaction, in the service of both individuals and organizations. Through the Job Talk Radio Show, I also want to be able to provide information, assistance, and encouragement to those who endure an unfulfilling or challenging worklife, but who are unable to afford to hire me to help them through a one-on-one coaching relationship. I believe that The Job Talk Radio Show and TV Show platform will allow me to support, encourage and answer questions for those who don’t engage me as their coach; and that by doing so, those who do choose to hire me, will know that I am highly skilled and capable in helping them solve their workplace challenges, while also building Leadership Capacity and Executive Presence.

TheJob Talk Radio Show is targeted at listeners seeking more encouragement, respect and inspiration in their workplace and worklife choices. This includes persons who are coaching, teaching, or mentoring others, or as employees are transitioning, fulltime, part-time, unemployed, or underemployed in their worklife – between the age of 20 and 95. I am encouraged to report that we have active mentors and workers from all four generations, including our Veterans, Boomers, Xers, and Nexters.

Although TheJob Talk Radio Show’s radio programming is Monday to Friday, the and Pod Cast will be weekly and delivered on Thursday. While the existing radio show format is 1 hour long with 44 minutes of content, the aim for each podcast show is a 30-40 min. episode. The Pod Cast show is intended to assist in promoting and marketing my brand as an Executive Leadership Coach, and the various shows are structured both as solo discussion and hosted interviews with worklife experts and commentators, to showcase and highlight a variety of worklife issues, solutions and opportunities.